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CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places A WARDS Sessler honoured with Enrico Fermi Award Andrew Sessler, well known both for his work Andrew Sessler, well known for his in accelerator physics and as a humanitarian, contributions to accelerator physics. (Image has been awarded the US government’s credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/LBNL.) Enrico Fermi Award. He shares the award with Allen Bard, of the University of Texas at Austin, who was selected for his pioneering humanitarian causes. During the Cold War contributions to the fi eld of electrochemistry. era, he was a co-founder of the human rights The two scientists received the award in a group Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and ceremony that took place in Washington, Sharansky (SOS) – scientists who were DC, on 3 February. Beforehand, they had the persecuted as dissidents in what was then the opportunity to meet the US president, Barack Soviet Union. Obama, at the White House. The Fermi Award, which is one of the A former director of the Lawrence contributions to the establishment of US federal government’s oldest and most Berkeley National Laboratory (1973–1980), the beam-physics knowledge basis that prestigious prizes for scientifi c achievement, Sessler fi rst made his scientifi c mark in has underpinned the development of is administered on behalf of the White House the 1950s, with foundational work in current-generation particle accelerators and by the US Department of Energy. particle accelerators that provided the basis storage rings deployed at leading research ● A revised and expanded edition of for today’s colliders, synchrotron light institutions throughout the world”. Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle sources and free-electron lasers. The Fermi Sessler is also recognized for his public Accelerators by Andrew Sessler and Award honours him for his “outstanding advocacy of scientifi c freedom and other Edmund Wilson is due out in April. Luciano Maiani, right, receives the 2013 Maiani receives the Pontcorvo Award from Richard Lednicky, vice-director of JINR. (Image credit: JINR.) 2013 Pontecorvo on a model that suppressed strangeness- changing weak neutral currents through the Award introduction of a fourth quark – charm. The award was presented at the 115th session of the JINR Scientifi c Council Luciano Maiani has been awarded the by the vice-director of JINR, Richard 2013 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize by the Joint Lednicky. During the ceremony Maiani Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). director-general of CERN (1999–2003), gave a talk on perspectives in theoretical Maiani is honoured for his “outstanding he was also the president of Italy’s INFN and experimental physics following the contribution to particle physics, in and of the National Research Council. He discovery of a Higgs boson, in which he particular his work on weak interaction is particularly well known for his work highlighted investment in accelerators for physics and neutrino physics”. A former with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos the advancement of science. François Englert receives honorary doctorate On 12 November, four weeks before the François Englert, right, with former Nobel prize award ceremony in Stockholm, student Jean Orloff, theoretician at François Englert was made Doctor Honoris Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire Causa of the Blaise Pascal University (UBP) and mentor for this award. (Image credit in Clermont-Ferrand, on a proposal of the Danyel Massacrier.) Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC). Previous Nobel laureates in physics the writer, philosopher, mathematician proposed by the LPC for honorary doctorates and physicist, Blaise Pascal. He wrote this from UBP include Jack Steinberger in 1995 premonitory sentence about the vacuum in and Richard Taylor in 1997. to LHC experiments is particularly notable, 1647: “Empty space is in between matter and The LPC – a joint laboratory of with teams involved in the ATLAS, ALICE nothingness” – or in 17th century French CNRS-IN2P3/UBP – has worked with and LHCb experiments. language: “l’espace vide tient le milieu entre CERN since the early 1960s. Its contribution Clermont-Ferrand is the birthplace of la matière et le néant”. 35 Untitled-1 1 11/03/2014 16:38 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 3 A PRIL 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier April 2014 CERN Courier April 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places Magnet design for HiLumi LHC wins competition When Charilaos Kokkinos returned to Greece after a fellowship at CERN on the HiLumi LHC Design Study, he set up an engineering The Proton Synchrotron (PS) is the oldest accelerator operating at CERN. consultancy called FEAC Engineering. Now, Its origins date back to 1952, when the provisional CERN Council decided the company has won a competition with his to build a “high-energy” PS. Within a few months, the PS group convinced work on the design of an 11 T superconducting The winning design image, for an 11 T LHC magnet. (Image credit: FEAC Engineering.) Council to launch a study for an alternating-gradient PS of “about 30 dipole magnet for the HiLumi LHC project. GeV” as the main project of the new laboratory (CERN Courier January/ It was one of the winners of “best-in-class” in ANSYS engineering design tools the chance from product concept and computer-aided February 2004 p15). On 3 February 1959, the fi rst of the 100 main magnet units was the corporate category of the 2014 ANSYS to showcase their simulation and engineering design drafting to advanced multi-physics installed in the empty PS tunnel hauled by a small electric battery-driven vehicle. Inc. Hall of Fame Competition. skills through the production of eye-catching fi nite-element analysis and design Nobody in 1952 could have imagined that the PS would remain the backbone of CERN’s This annual image competition aims to simulation images and animations. optimization by using state-of-the-art scientifi c activities well into the 21st century. Keeping it in operation has involved some highlight some of engineering’s most complex Based in Greece, the new company, FEAC computer-aided engineering tools. serious maintenance. Since 2003 there has been a huge campaign to refurbish the design challenges. The contest gives users of Engineering, provides consulting services ● For more details, see www.feacomp.com. magnets, which has required removing and reinstalling them with the old vehicle – itself refurbished. Here, right, it is seen moving a refurbished magnet in a now crowded tunnel TOTEM and CDF studies win INFN thesis prize on 3 February 2009. (Image credits: CERN-IT-0106040 and CERN-AC-0902012 – 13). A PPOINTMENTS Mirko Berretti from Siena University and multiplicity in the T2 particle telescope. Federico Sforza of INFN Pisa have won Sforza’s work was on measurement of the Brookhaven names new deputy the 2013 INFN Conversi Prize for their production of pairs of vector bosons with PhD theses. They received their awards in a the CDF experiment at Fermilab. His thesis ceremony that was held on 7 February at the is on “Evidence for diboson production in director for science and technology seat of the INFN Presidency in Rome. the lepton plus heavy fl avor jets fi nal state Berretti earned his doctorate in studies at at CDF”. CERN’s LHC, specifi cally the “Measurement This annual award by INFN celebrates Experimental physicist Robert Tribble of the forward charged particle pseudorapidity the role of Marcello Conversi (1917–1988). has become deputy director for science density in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the The competition is open to members of Mirko Berretti receives his prize from INFN and technology at the US Department of TOTEM experiment”. In particular, he did INFN who have gained doctorates in president, Fernando Ferroni, left, while Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. important work on the pattern recognition the past year with a thesis in the fi eld of Federico Sforza, right, looks on. (Image He joins Brookhaven from Texas A&M and reconstruction of the charged-track subnuclear physics. credit: INFN.) University (TAMU), where he was distinguished professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Cyclotron Willibald Jentschke (centre left) toasts Institute and the Nuclear Solutions Institute. Donatus Degèle, Hermann Kumpfert and Tribble joined TAMU in 1975, following the synchrotron team in the DESY control a PhD from Princeton University. An room on 26 February 1964, after the fi rst experimental physicist whose work spans a particles successfully circulated repeatedly broad range of topics, he is widely credited through the vacuum system of the DESY with developing new tools and techniques synchrotron, approximately 300 m in that have advanced the fi eld. He has circumference. After two weeks of at times served as a member or chair of numerous Robert Tribble is now deputy director for frustrating efforts by the accelerator team, long-range planning committees for the science and technology at Brookhaven. all went quickly. The fi rst electrons reached American Physical Society and the Nuclear (Image credit: Brookhaven National 2.5 GeV in about 8000 orbits, with 5 GeV Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), Laboratory.) obtained the following day, just 1 GeV leading the development of the most recent below the design energy. Today, 50 years NSAC Long Range Plan for Nuclear major accelerator facilities – RHIC and the later, the DESY accelerator continues to Science, as well as evaluating the state of new National Synchrotron Light Source operate reliably, delivering beams of up to nuclear-physics facilities around the world. II – Tribble joins a team that is taking on 1.8 × 10 10 particles at 6.3 GeV, and is still in He played a key role in communicating new challenges, from expanding RHIC demand as a test beam for studies of future the importance of the US nuclear-science to the electron–ion collider eRHIC, to detectors.

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